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AlbredaA
3 years ago

What is with the flickering icons??

Since the new update, my Social Bunny notfications light,  moodlet upward trend arrows, and the social bunny emotes are all flickering ALL THETIME, almost like strobe lights. It is REALLY visually distracting, almost painfully so, and has made it so instead of this being a relaxing game I can easily play for hours, I have to get off after about fifteen minutes to not get headache. I honestly find Social Bunny kind of useless in the first place, but now I HAVE to go in every time the notification light starts jittering at me just to make it stop. Very irritating, and *definitely* a bug, not a feature!

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    HI @AlbredaA 

    Try resetting your user files as described in the factory reset described in this post: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4/FAQ-Troubleshooting-Steps-amp-Known-Issues/m-p/3621199

    You won't loose anything. Just make sure to not delete any files  and make a backup.

    After renaming, repair your game by clicking on the dots in EA app.

    Try on a new game with nothing added back first (start new game). If it works, put back your save game and try again. If it still works, you can start putting stuff back.

    • Options.ini (or just re-set all your settings manually)
    • Tray Folder
    • Screenshots/Videos/Custom music
    • Rest of the save games (leave out slot_00000001.save which is the autosave and no longer needed - if you still have it)
    • Custom content like clothing, hair, skins, make up ....
    • ConfigOverride, if you have your own configuration files.
    • Mods (one by one, making sure they all still work)

    The rest does not need putting back, cause they are mostly cache files that recreate or log files that are not needed for the game.

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